Kalmyk Oirat

Spoken in

Mongolian languages

  • Kalmyk

Xal

Xal

The Kalmyk language (also kalmükische or Kalmyk language; Kalmyk: Хальмг келн ) is a variety of Oiratischen and is counted as such to the Mongolian languages. It is - like all Mongolian languages ​​- an agglutinative language. Kalmyk is spoken by 180,000 people and is the official language in the Republic of Kalmykia in Russia. Kalmyk is written in Cyrillic script since 1923, with a permanent interruption of 1931-1938, in which the Latin alphabet was used.

Dictionaries, learning and teaching materials

  • Bardaev EC, Kirjuchaev VL: Russko - kalmyckij razgovornik. Elista: Kalmyckoe knižnoe izdatel'stvo, 1993 240 pp. ISBN 5-7539-0271-5. .
Language family Mongolic languages
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